The National Labor Relations Board recently issued a decision significantly expanding the right of employees to use their employers' e-mail systems for union organizing
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Marquette University has suspended with pay and barred from campus the tenured professor who criticized a graduate student instructor in a personal blog
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PSU's March 9th, 2014 threat to cut off email from striking AAUP members found to be unlawful
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Winter Caucus Dates
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Some trustees say an increase in compensation would aid recruitment
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Arizona State tells non-tenure-track English instructors to shift from 4-4 to 5-5 course load, without increase in compensation and in violation of professional codes on how many writing students one can effectively teach.
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On their campus set amid the idyllic northwestern woodlands, graduate students at the University of Oregon stepped out of their classrooms and onto a historic picket line...
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In a significant win for labor unions, federal regulators ruled Thursday that employers can't prevent their workers from using company email to organize and discuss their working conditions outside of work.
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Union advocates applauded two decisions by the National Labor Relations Board last week, one of which protects the right of employees using work email for union communications.
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Board Passes Resolution for an Armed Police Force on the PSU Campus and U of O GTFF reach a Tentative Agreement after an 8 day Strike
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An effort to increase the representation of women on the faculty and among doctoral students at the University of Michigan’s business school is showing results
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Over the strong objections of many students and three-fourths of the tenure-track faculty, Portland State University's new board of trustees voted Thursday to create an armed campus police force.
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Two universities have dedicated millions of dollars to foster educational change. But the impact of those efforts goes beyond the financial.
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The tentative contract agreement creates a $150,000 leave fund
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Some states are picking up the tab for community college tuition, and Oregon could be next.
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Let's walk the picket line here in Portland to support the UO GTFF Strike and KUMBAYA Rally on Park Blocks on Thursday December 11th.
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For a rising generation of administrators in higher education, the heart of education is innovative technology -- and faculty get in the way.
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Mediation resumes this morning
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Guns on our campus and UO GTFF continues to strike!
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By failing to reach a contract with its teaching fellows, UO goes back on its pledge to help all students
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